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Re: Should psql support URI syntax?

Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>

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From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Adrian von Bidder <avbidder@fortytwo.ch>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2011-04-06T19:31:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 13:35 -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>  
> > Many drivers support an extended syntax like:
> > 
> >
> postgres:ssl://localhost:5432/template1/?username=jd&password=foobar&ssl=true
> > 
> > But I don't know if we want to go there.
>  
> We've been there for years:
>  
> http://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/head/connect.html
>  

Not for psql we haven't.

JD

> -Kevin
> 

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